Project Management Quarter

Project Implementation Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the last of four lectures of Project Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):

The Quarter is designed to introduce its learners to enterprise implementation, or, in other words, to concepts related to implementing enterprise design; and
The Quadrivium examines concepts of administering various types of enterprises known as enterprise administration as a whole.

The Quadrivium is the first of seven modules of Septem Artes Administrativi, which is a course designed to introduce its learners to general concepts in business administration, management, and organizational behavior.

Lecture outline

The predecessor lecture is Solution Design Quarter.

Project management. The task of getting a project's activities done on time, within budget, and according to specifications.

- Project management. Practice and a set of concepts, based on that practice, that define culture of managing of projects from the moment when the project manager is identified to the project closing.

Scheduling. Detailing what activities have to be done, the order in which they are to be completed, who is to do each, and when they are to be completed.

Enterprise effort. A determined attempt or a set of attempts undertaken in order to create outcomes of a work package, task, activity, project, operations, and/or enterprise.
- Work package.
- Task.
- Activity.
- Project. One or more enterprise efforts undertaken in order to create a unique deliverable, most features of which can be identified before the development starts.
- Operations (or Ongoing operations). Repetitive enterprise efforts undertaken in order to create a specified deliverable or a batch of specified deliverables using already designed process.
- DevOps. Practice and a set of concepts, based on that practice, that define culture of unifying software development (Dev) and software operations (Ops). Its signature toolchain represents a chain of tools that fit one of the following categories: (a) Code, (b) Build, (c) Test, (d) Package, (e) Release, (f) Configure, and (e) Monitor.

This lecture concludes the Quadrivium. Since the next, third module of the Course is Operations Quadrivium; thus, the successor lecture is Compliance Research Quarter.